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November 09, 2005
Independent performance testing on fragmentation?
Once and a while I'm asked for independent studies on the performance effects of disk fragmentation. There are some excellent studies out there.
Diskeeper Corporation recently sponsored a paper done by Windows IT Pro. Their writer, Joe Kinsella, actually developed his own test tools in order to do a very thorough fragmentation performance study:
Besides the recent study we sponsored, there are a bunch of other independent studies in existence. A quick Google search yields a Harvard University study on UNIX:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/research/tr94.html
I was unable to find a university study on Windows. I imagine Universities are probably less interested in studying the effects of fragmentation on FAT and NTFS, because it's generally considered common knowledge that file fragmentation hurts their performance.
Once in a while a media source does in-depth fragmentation testing as part of a review, such as this PC Mag article:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1591466,00.asp
The non-profit organization National Software Test Lab (NSTL) has also done performance tests on fragmentation:
http://www.softwareshelf.com/HTML/products/prod_materials/5/NSTLXP_mddvdk.pdf
- Paul
Posted by paul.shomo at 07:47 AM | Comments (1)
November 02, 2005
Checkout Diskeeper's New Knowledge Center
Our new Diskeeper Knowledge Center is one of the most complete sources of research and test data on disk fragmentation:
http://www.diskeeper.com/products/documentation/documentation.asp
Posted by paul.shomo at 07:40 AM | Comments (0)